2013 Global Leadership Summit Session 7a: Oscar Muriu

Senior Pastor, Nairobi Chapel, Kenya

Session 7: Viral Leadership: Multiplying Impact Exponentially

• Under his leadership, Nairobi Chapel has grown from a 40 person local church to a network of 30 churches with more than 14,000 weekly worshippers
• Following a passionate conviction to raise up and develop a legacy of leaders, Nairobi Chapel has trained more than 500 interns
• His vision is to see the African church rise up to its place and calling in the Global Church
• A thriving missions-focused congregation, Nairobi Chapel operates an HIV/AIDS ministry and has a vision to plant 300 churches in Africa and worldwide

Session notes

• Their goal is to plant 300 churches around the world
• 5 convictions about leadership
• 1) Matthew 9:37-38
  • Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
  • The size of your harvest depends on how many leaders you have
  • The problem is not with the harvest but with the harvesters, not enough of them.

  • Jesus strategy was not to harvest by himself but to first find his leaders.

  • One of the signs of great leadership is the number of leaders who will continue your work after you are gone.

  • If you are tired and burned out, how many leaders are around you?

• Psalm 71:18

  • Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.

  • Don’t live just for your generation but for the next generation.
  • His church has a huge internship program
  • Every leader at his church must have 5 younger people that they are pouring into for 1 or 2 years
• Numbers 11:10-17
  • Moses was discouraged & frustrated. Cried out to God. God told Moses to select 70 leaders and He would pour his Spirit out on them.
  • Some of your best leaders are right under your nose, but they are so close you can’t see them.
  • Identify the budding leaders around you and take them to the Lord in prayer.
  • Every year they list and “pray into ministry” young budding leaders.
• Mark 12:30-33
  •  Loving the Lord with all your heart is a matter of character, conviction, comprehension, competence.
  • Loving your neighbor is a matter of  compassion
• Acts 4:13
  • Never do ministry alone. Always have budding leaders around you.
  • At 3 hours a week, it would take you 60 years to put the same time with a young leader as Jesus spent with his disciples.
• He did not come from Kenya to Chicago alone but brought 3 young leaders with him.
• 500 men and women have gone through their mentoring